Half of my contacts are "synced" with an email address I want to delete off of my iPhone. How do i "save" them?

I currently have an email address I no longer use on my iPhone. Whenever I delete it, I always lose a bunch of contacts (I can tell because I have random numbers in my text messages). So I always have to add the account back. How do I get those contacts which are apparently attached to the email account (although they are only numbers, no emails) to "save" to my iPhone? I don't even know where to find which ones are going to be deleted until I delete them. Thanks in advance!!

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